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Living with Courageous Presence (2019-02-06)

Tara Brach

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What Does It Mean to Be Courageous in This Moment?

I think that courage is a really, really useful word to contemplate. What does it mean? I found in my own life thatl i think of it in an evolutionary way,. That our conditioning and ore reflex when there's vulnerability, when the demons arise, are conditioning as to do anythingbut put our head in the mouth of the demon. And yet evolution has given us this capacity in our brain which allows us to see what's going on instead of resisting. So that, to me, is the essence of courage. It's really manifesting this evolutionary capacity to stay when there’s vulnerability, to go ahead and feel what's right here.

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